Australia is Nintendo-hard

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:15 pm

...or so I hear. The newest entry in the AINH files is this: http://t.co/bO3FoAJY

Pseudo Stupidity · Post by **Pseudo Stupidity** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:23 pm

That Australian lady in the picture clearly knows no fear, what with walking four dogs right through spider-land and all.

Where I live we get caterpillar webs in trees...but holy shit. Holy fucking shit. That's Battletoads hard.

erik · Post by **erik** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 8:55 pm

I used to want to go to Australia some day. Thanks for clearing that up.

Also, my wife said "ew" and kept shuddering, and my mom said "it looks like some sort of horror movie."
Ayep.

p.s. that's 5 dogs, but I bet it was 4 or less by the end of the walk. you can't outrun the venom little greyhounds!

[edit]
p.p.s.
In all seriousness, it sounds like these spiders are just displaced and harmless. Poor little guys just fleeing the flood like everyone else. I'm sure they're just

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-08/spider-army-descends-on-wagga-in-flood-escape/3877566 wrote:Residents taking refuge from flood and spider in the Red Steer pub say you cannot walk down the road without swarms of tiny brown spiders crawling up your legs

Ahhhhhh! Fuck, fuck, fuck! Why god? Whyyyyyyyyyyyy!

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:09 pm

Australia. More things that can kill you than any place else . .

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 9:20 pm

fucking ice level

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Thu Mar 08, 2012 11:25 pm

Australia: home to explosive trees that set teddy bears on fire! Small, incontinent teddy bears.

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:22 am

The only solution to the nightmare that is Australia has always been and always will be apocalyptic nuclear hellfire. Koumei had the right idea when she was looking for a flamethrower, except we need to do that to the whole continent. How can any of us sleep until Australia is a lifeless plane of molten glass? No offense to any Australians. You are unfortunate casualties in the war against terrible things that will visit me in my dreams tonight.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:28 am

Doesn't work.
*holds up pinky*
there's stuff of this size in the water around that continent that will kill you too . .

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 1:03 am

Stahlseele wrote:there's stuff of this size in the water around that continent that will kill you too . .

As a primarily land-dwelling mammal, I can live with that.

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:47 am

DSMatticus wrote:
Stahlseele wrote:there's stuff of this size in the water around that continent that will kill you too . .
As a primarily land-dwelling mammal, I can live with that.

ORLY?

That scary water turns up in the damnedest places.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:24 am

History: the bears are constantly high, too.

DSMatticus wrote:No offense to any Australians. You are unfortunate casualties in the war against terrible things that will visit me in my dreams tonight.

I understand completely.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:10 am

erik wrote:
DSMatticus wrote:
Stahlseele wrote:there's stuff of this size in the water around that continent that will kill you too . .
As a primarily land-dwelling mammal, I can live with that.
ORLY?

That scary water turns up in the damnedest places.

Yep. Discworld The Last Continent and annotations:

+ [p. 112] "'Er... there's a great big spider on the toilet seat.'"

Spiders on the toilet are a big problem in Australia -- it's always worth having a good look before you sit. A small number of people per year, apparently, suffer nasty bites from redbacks (a kind of black widow) when sitting on the toilet. A mid-90s UK TV commercial for Carling Black Label (a brand of beer) showed an English tourist in Australia faced with this problem.

There is also a well-known Australian folk song that goes:

There was a redback on the toilet seat
when I was there last night
I didn't see him in the dark
but boy I felt his bite

And now I am in hospital
a sad and sorry plight
I curse the redback spider
on the toilet seat last night

Ted the Flayer · Post by **Ted the Flayer** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:26 pm

Reminds me of my days playing world of Warcraft.

Pseudo Stupidity · Post by **Pseudo Stupidity** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:11 pm

Are you suggesting that a bold adventurer could head out into the spider fields, slaughter 10 of them and, assuming they drop their fangs, bring them back to the town hall to collect some gold?

Because I'm jealous of Koumei if that is the case.

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:15 pm

That's the backbone of their entire economy!